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How to spell cause

What it means: To make something happen.

In a sentence: The rain can cause the flowers to grow. ▶

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as cose or couse.

Same family: causes, causal, causation, caused, causing. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Cause comes from Old French “cause,” meaning “reason” or “legal case,” and from Latin “causa,” meaning “reason, sake, or judicial process.” This is why today it can mean both a reason for something and also a principle or movement that people support.

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